Complete with pie charts, drawings and doodles, the author/main character of We Should Hang Out Sometime conducts a thorough review of his past relationships to figure out why he’s never had a ‘real girlfriend’. He chronicles his escapades in homeschooling, youth group, golfing disasters, childhood cancer and the rules of having an amputated leg. (You know I’m particularly interested in books with main characters with disabilities, so I really wanted to love this book, but … alas.) From his first, less than 24-hours-long girlfriend in middle […]
Honestly, being a teen assassin sounds easier than my life.
I enjoyed the Throne of Glass series so much I couldn’t make myself stop between books to write reviews. And then shit happened and I have three partial reviews so instead of trying to write either three reviews or 1 comprehensive review, I’m going to throw out a bunch of remembered thoughts and then try to say something reasonably coherent. As taken as I was with the books, I got bogged down in writing the review and eventually abandoned and forgot it. I found it […]
I went to the library and checked out a book because I was getting scared.
I just reviewed Becky Albertalli’s “Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda” and I’m not going to lie, I was reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” at the same time, and sometimes I had trouble telling the difference between them. And I mean that with every compliment, because, as I wrote in my “Simon” review, there’s a strong and important tradition of novels that normalize the alienation of adolescence, and the millions of forms that it can take. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is […]
People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows
This book is a goddamned delight, and everyone should read it. The end. No, just kidding. But I am really glad I picked it up (on the recommendation of basically the entire CBR community, amirite?), even though lately I’ve been trying hard to balance my male protagonists and authors with the underrepresented lady brains that are at large and largely ignored (axe grinding alert!). I’m glad I picked it up because it’s incredibly sensitive, and thoughtful, and nuanced. It’s also a little bit self-conscious and […]